(unranked) (Links are to "Greatest Films" reviews) | |
Description of Moment | Example |
41. An old man found dead in a child's swing, his mission completed, at the end of Kurosawa's "Ikiru." | |
42. The haunted eyes of the actress Maria Falconetti in Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc." | |
43. The children watching the train pass by in Ray's "Pather Panchali." | |
44. The baby carriage bouncing down the steps in Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin." | |
45. "Are you lookin' at me?" Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver." | |
46. "My father made them an offer they couldn't refuse": Al Pacino in "The Godfather." | |
47. The mysterious body in the photographs in Antonioni's "Blow-Up." | |
48. "One word, Benjamin: plastics." From "The Graduate." | |
49. A man dying in the desert in von Stroheim's "Greed." | |
50. Eva Marie Saint clinging to Cary Grant's hand on Mount Rushmore in "North by Northwest." | |
51. Astaire and Rogers dancing. ["Swing Time", or "Top Hat"] | |
52. "There ain't no sanity clause!" Chico to Groucho in "A Night at the Opera." | |
53. "They call me Mr. Tibbs." Sidney Poitier in Norman Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night." | |
54. The sadness of the separated newly-wed lovers (including the vision of the distraught husband Jean imagining his wife Juliette in her bridal gown reflected in the water), in Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante. | |
55. The vast expanse of desert, and then tiny figures appearing, in "Lawrence of Arabia." | |
56. Jack Nicholson on the back of the motorcycle, wearing a football helmet, in "Easy Rider." | |
57. The geometrical choreography of the Busby Berkeley girls. ["Golddiggers of 1933", "Footlight Parade"] | |
58. The peacock spreading its tail feathers in the snow, in Fellini's "Amarcord." | |
59. Robert Mitchum in "The Night of the Hunter," with "LOVE" tattooed on the knuckles of one hand, and "HATE" on the other. | |
60. Joan Baez singing "Joe Hill" in "Woodstock." | |
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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